Dwarf-kind,
or the Khazâd as they name themselves, have always been extremely secretive
about the ways of their own people.Nearly
nothing is known of their customs other than general mode of dress and some food
preferences, and nearly nothing is known of their lives, other than physical
form and lifespan.Therefore, it is
not very surprising that nearly nothing is known of their language as well.In fact, what little is known has been gleaned from
place-names, inscriptions, and the occasional battle-cry or insult.What is known, however, is outlined here.

Khuzdûl
appears to be quite different indeed from any other language of Ennor, even on
its most basic level.Rather than
being primarily composed of roots and added prefixes or suffixes to derive
different word forms as are any of the Eldarin tongues, the language is
something like Hebrew or Arabic in that the root-stems of words are of
consonants only.Derivations are therefore formed by adding vowels in between
the consonants in certain ways.All
the precise methods to this are not quite known, but a few deductions can be
made from available sources.

When a word has its first vowel as the first letter of
the word, it stays the same and the last vowel is fully lengthened.

A short word with only one or two consonants and a
single vowel has its vowel fully lengthened even if the vowel does begin the
word.

When a word has a first-syllable vowel a, it is
changed to e and a replaces the last vowel or is added in the
last syllable if there is no vowel.

When a word has a first-syllable vowel e, it is
changed to a and the last vowel is fully lengthened.

When a word has a first-syllable vowel i, it
stays the same and î replaces the last vowel or is added in the last
syllable if there is no vowel.

When a word has a first-syllable vowel u, it is
changed to a and â replaces the last vowel or is added in the
last syllable if there is no vowel.

Cases

There
appears to be a genetive case involving -u in which any word that ends
in another vowel comes to end in -u instead, and a word ending in a
consonant has -u appended; therfore a word such as burk -
"axe" becomes burku - "axe of".Also this affects plurals; the plural barâk - "axes"
becomes barûk - "axes of".

There appears to be an ending -ûn which describes a person, thing,
or place characterized by the root-word

Conjugations

Unfortunately
nothing is known here.

Sentence structure

There
appears to be no is/am/are verb (and perhaps no direct being verbs at all).

Adjectives
appear to precede nouns most of the time even in compounds, but there are a
couple of known exceptions.